[itsmeste]

"How did you decide for TypeScript, and how do you benefit from it" is among my first questions in interviews for TS positions. It's ironic how rarely I get a good answer, but it offers a good insight into their tech philosophy, and mostly I'd pass on the position. (working in backend)

[Aeolun]

If anyone asked me this I’d be kind of confused. If they really don’t know how choosing Typescript over Javascript benefits them I don’t want to hire them.

[sangnoir]

Interviews are a two way street. What you've said is the equivalent of an interviewee saying "If a company has to ask me how to implement a zero-allocation sorting algorithm in an interview, they are clearly incompetent and I wouldn't work for them". In both cases, the person doing the asking knows the right answer(s) more or less - they are checking if the person across the table does too.